This release is different from previous ones in that it is a preliminary version meant as a technology preview. This version has not been fully tested so it is not suitable for production usage. For production usage the team suggests using ConPaaS-1.3.1.

ConFederation - Contrail Federation

The Contrail Federation integrates in a common platform multiple Clouds, of public and private kind. User identities, data, and resources are interoperable within the federation, thanks to: • common support for authentication and authorization • common mechanisms for policy definition, monitoring, and enforcing of all aspects of QoS : SLA, QoP, etc. • a common economic model

Contrail VEP (Virtual Execution Platform)

Contrail VEP allows the participation of a cloud service provider in the Contrail cloud federation. It allows deployment and full life-cycle management of an OVF application honoring the negotiated SLA (service level agreements) and the QoP (quality of protection) restrictions. It provides mechanism to support application's elasticity and provides monitoring data for verification and SLA enforcement.